Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 1

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 1

Author: Morton Manus

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2007-08

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780739048887

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Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! A DVD with iPod-compatible video is provided for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books ensure that you'll get everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students. Book 1 covers how to hold your guitar, tuning your guitar, basics of reading music, notes on all six strings, chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments, duets, photos and diagrams, and acoustic and electric guitars. Titles: Singin' in the Rain * Take Me Home Country Roads * Over the Rainbow * Annie's Song * When the Saints Go Marching In.


Chord Velocity

Chord Velocity

Author: Bruce E. Arnold

Publisher: muse eek publishing

Published: 2001-01

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 1890944882

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The first hurdle a beginning guitarist encounters is difficulty switching between chords quickly enough to make a chord progression sound like music. This book provides exercises that help a student gradually increase the speed with which they change chords. Special free audio files are also available on the muse-eek.com website to make practice more productive and fun. Within a few weeks, remarkable improvement by can be achieved using this method. This book is excerpted from "1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist Volume One."


First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar

First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1495012743

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(Guitar Collection). 50 songs essential to any guitarist's repertoire, including: Against the Wind * Barely Breathing * Boulevard of Broken Dreams * Champagne Supernova * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Fast Car * Free Fallin' * Hey There Delilah * Ho Hey * I Won't Give Up * Layla * Let Her Go * Mean * One * Ring of Fire * Signs * Stairway to Heaven * Trouble * Wagon Wheel * Wish You Were Here * Yellow * Yesterday * and more.


Guitar Aerobics

Guitar Aerobics

Author: Troy Nelson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781423414353

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(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.


The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar

The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar

Author: Jamey Andreas

Publisher:

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780975528525

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2004 Silver Award Winner for Best Instructional Materials by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.Correct Practice is what all good players do, whether they know they are doing it or not! That's how they get to be good players. Whether you are a beginner or a player with the usual problems, here is your Foundation book, "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar!"- for ALL styles and ALL levels. "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" is composed of three elements:Understandings: Concepts which you must understand in order to begin to practice effectivelyTools: Practice Approaches to be used to solve problems in playing. These approaches are based on certain key Understandings, such as Muscle Memory and Sympathetic Tension, as well as Attention and Awareness.Exercises: Specific routines to be done during practice, that will build technique, (playing ability) in a step by step fashion, each step building on the previous one, and preparing for the next.


A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Author: Jennifer Egan

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-06-08

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0307593622

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review


Guitar Adventures

Guitar Adventures

Author: Damon Ferrante

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-08-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781479106196

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Designed for beginners, this interactive book and streaming video course, in an easy lesson format, is all that you will need to get started playing the guitar! Music professor and guitar instructor, Damon Ferrante guides you through 100 step-by-step, easy-to-follow lessons and streaming video lessons that are the perfect introduction to playing the guitar. His method, used by thousands of guitar students and teachers, will will greatly improve your guitar technique, song repertoire, creativity, and understanding of music. Each lesson is interactive, engaging and fun! You learn how to play the guitar through learning songs. No music reading is required! Ask yourself this: 1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but did not know where to start? 2. Did you start guitar lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult? 3. Are you struggling to follow online guitar lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency? 4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the guitar through an affordable, step-by-step book and video course? If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then this guitar book and video course is definitely for you. Scroll up to get your copy today!


Loving Practice, Developing Discipline

Loving Practice, Developing Discipline

Author: Steadman Klondike

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780999497869

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This book is about how children can learn to understand themselves and their own internal motivators to make the challenging process of becoming a musician a joyful journey. If we can teach children to engage in learning music in ways that work for them, we will have given them one of the most powerful assets of all: self-knowledge.